Stop eating eggs. It's literally animal period if that helps you
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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I have chickens. People refuse to pay $5 a dozen for our pasture eggs. Even though that's cheaper than any other eggs in the area. I'm also sitting on a dozen goose eggs. A goose egg is three times the size of a chicken egg. They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.
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Well, I guess you’re all satisfied, it seems to be guaranteed /s
Subscription payment on eggs is wild! lol
Even worse, it's buy now pay later.
Oh my gosh, this planet is the bad place. Are we in hell and did we all die in Dec 21 2012?
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I used to buy these after recent price hikes. To be fair, these were always three times the price than regular eggs.
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Random tip: Kala Namak is a condiment which tastes a lot like egg yolk. If you sprinkle it onto some cooked white beans, that's kind of like scrambled eggs (well, it is different, but also good and might satiate a craving).
Basically, Kala Namak is salt+sulphur. Egg yolk also contains sulphur, and well, sulphur is one of the minerals we should be eating anyways.
This is some dystopian shit right here
Chaat masala is delicious and this is one of the main ingredients, along with green mango powder (amchoor). The smell is a bit surprising at first but it's good.
Oh I'm not knocking it, I'm sure it's good. But substituting beans for eggs because eggs are too fuckin expensive is has some real Soylent green vibes
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Tofu scramble is another good alternative, albeit also not exactly the same. This recipe looks like a decent starting point:
https://www.noracooks.com/tofu-scramble/#wprm-recipe-container-4234
I also really like adding vegetables to my scramble, that'll make it even less like eggs though.
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pretty funny that here in Australia, you can get a dozen for around $2 or 3 aud, and even then our major supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, are getting probed for price gouging, AND we are apparently going though a shortage due to bird flu.
The only issue is that the US has an avian flu that causes them to cull lots of birds and also drives up the costs.
If the country had a significant amount of voting citizens that cared, it would be able to deal with this sort of issue in stride…
Here we are…
Building a small den to hold 2 to 4 chickens is cheaper in the long run.
For the city: Renting a parking spot and turning an old junker into a chicken den is also probably cheaper. Just make sure to secure it against egg thiefs.
Is it? Speaking from experience? I've heard it both ways and trying to get a better idea of how it works out financially.
Just to make it clear, the second part was a joke.
About the other, relatives actually got 6 chickens. The main investment is time and land, and occasionally a trip to the vet. Given the US prices… if you eat eggs regularly and don't want to miss it then I'd assume it's cheaper, would have to ask for a details myself though (they jokingly said once they would save a ton in the US right now). It heavily depends on outside factors though (less land, dangers = more expensive).
Depends what land you have, if you are more reliant on feed then you will be at the mercy of feed prices which can vary. If you have enough secured land then it can be practically free. Also Coyotes are assholes.
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Not eating eggs is cheapest.
Yes those chickens will surely thrive in their den inside my den..
Actually they'd probably do a lot better than the chickens in the industrial farms.
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why are eggs so atrociously expensive in the US? where i live they’re the equivalent of 3$ USD for a dozen
The eggs in the picture are like the most expensive eggs you can buy. A dozen of the cheapest eggs are around $5-6. Which is still like 3-4 times as expensive as they were a few years ago, but not nearly as insane as what is posted.
Because egg producers are using the hype of bird flu to increase profit margins at the expense of their customers.
Grocery stores are following suit by spreading signs about bird flu and increasing their prices as well.
Just poke tiny holes in them, blow out the contents and return them for a refund.
Just syphon other people's eggs contents using a long straw whenever they are distracted.
Thanks Wile
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These Vital Farms eggs come with an insert with a QR code that allegedly shows you pictures of the specific farm your eggs came from. I've never bothered to look it up though.
It does have it, and I've seen different farms for each one that claims to be a different farm. However, it's not a live feed, it's a prerecorded video of the chickens on the farm. It does seem ethical, but I would prefer live feed since anyone can take a video per farm and then not let the chickens out ever again.